Band of the Week: Trip Frogg

High energy band that likes to take chances

•Members: Members of Trip Frogg (front left to right) George Jasman and Jose Matos, (rear left to right) Vern Parsons, Donovan O'Brien, and John Gonsalves

•Style of music: Alternative/Heavy Rock

•Where based: Easton

•When formed: Summer 2008 (original members) Played out for the first time June' 09. Replaced singer & bass player early March 2010, and within 10 days put a 90 minute set together. Two weeks later we played our first three set show with the new line up (maybe 18 hours of rehearsal).

•How band came together: Started as therapy for me as I was recovering from a Traumatic Brain Injury. Writing and recording alone got boring and lonely, hence the birth of TRIP FROGG.

•Our music in four words: High Energy Rock & Roll

•Influences: With over 100 combined years of experience, everything under the sun. Anything from Simon & Garfunkle, to Led Zeppelin, to Foo Fighters, to Prince, ect.

•You'll enjoy us if you like…a high energy band that likes to take chances (musically).

•Our best original song: Still working on that. This current line up has only been together since March, and we've probably played out more than we've practiced. We have recently started working on a few song ideas that are really progressing.

•Our best cover song: Depends who you ask... If your asking what goes over best, I would say depends on the venue but Higher Ground always seems to go over well.

•Our audience: Anywhere from early 20's to probably late 40's.

•Biggest gig: Mezza Luna so far, get back to me at the end of the year.

•Funny moment: One month into the new line up, we played a three day weekend. Sticks N Stones (Marshalls Creek), then Vanreeds (Reading), and finally our Mezza audition. Our drummer and singer were both really sick and worn down from the weekend. After our audition set, we're standing on stage talking to each other about how we felt the audition went. Donovan was out on the floor and came running up and jumped up onto the stage. Mezza Luna hangs their PA from the ceiling, and he proceeds to crack his nugget right on the bottom of one of the cabinets. Split his head open nicely, he did. So far that's probably the most comical story that I'm allowed to tell.

•Worst onstage scewup: So far nothing real bad, the key is to make a screw up look like it was meant to happen.

•We hate when audiences… Don't show up...lol

•Goal: Be the best band we can be and deliver the best show possible to whoever we're playing for.

•Where you'll find us next: The Jacksonain 119 Main St. Nazareth, 9 p.m. today and 1 p.m. Aug. 1 benefit for the children of Denise Merhi.

•Comment: We're all been doing this a long, long time. We have a pretty good idea what's good and what's not. We do this because we can and we love it! We have no pipe dreams of record deals or anything crazy. This is a release for us, the never ending therapy if you will. That's not to say that if something bigger came along we'd turn our nose up. We are smart enough to know the reality of the music business. That's why we can have fun, because if the whole thing was over tomorrow, we'd be satisfied knowing that we've really accomplished a lot in such a short amount of time. Thank you for the opportunity.